Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One of the medical staff of the hospital was a very old man, who had practised in the district for nearly fifty years. He noticed that several people had died of cancer, whom he knew personally had suffered from venereal disease in years gone by, and thought that cancer was apt to attack tissues degenerated by their influence. In 1904 I made two voyages to the West Indies, the Spanish Main, and also crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific side of Central America ; the tropical jungle is most beautiful, the canal was most interesting, and the last revolution was in full swing under American protection. On both these voyages, and also in a subsequent one in 1906 to Spain, Portugal, and South America as a ship’s surgeon, I finally realised how hopelessly utopian is the middle-class notion, that the fear of disease leads to an improved morality. Jamaica is infested with venereal disease, and the illegiti- mate birth-rate is sixty-five per cent, of the total number of children born ! This island is the great- est satire on our laisser faire policy for the pro- motion of morality that I have ever come across in the whole of my travels. Our navy and our mercantile marine have often suffered severely, from the point of view of health and efficiency.
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